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Tag: Contemporary

Review: Hospital by Sanya Rushdi (translated by Arunava Sinha)

‘Can people hear me think? Let them.’

Australian, Contemporary, Mental illness, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: Feast by Emily O’Grady

Grotesque and decadent.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Scotland, Stella Prize

Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon

A meticulous study of pain.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, Stella Prize

Review: The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The big climate book.

Climate change, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel, science fiction, Speculative

Review: The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright

The limits and possibilities of empathy.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel

Review: Eventually, Everything Connects by Sarah Firth

Sly, whimsical, existential essays.

Australian, Contemporary, Essays, Graphic novel, Memoir

Review: God Forgets About The Poor by Peter Polites

“People will love my suffering”.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Greece, Migrant, Novel

Review: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Survival in authoritarian Ireland.

Contemporary, Fiction, Ireland, Novel, Speculative, War

Review: Madukka by Julie Janson

The crime is colonisation.

Australian, Contemporary, Crime, Environment, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: The Modern by Anna Kate Blair

Love, sex, marriage, work and New York deconstructed.

Art, Australian, Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, Novel, queer

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